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Abstract
In India, rural sociology is treated as a part of sociology. Like sociology it is also considered as a social science. It is precisely a specialized field of sociology. Its nature is scientific. Actually to say, by nature rural sociology is a science. Science in simple words refers to a systematic body of knowledge. In case of rural sociology the rural problems are systematically and logically studied.
As a result of which the study becomes universally applicable. Rural sociology fulfills the different criteria of science. But the whole controversy centers round some problems which denies the rural sociology the status of a science. Generally the term ‘Nature’ refers to essential qualities or characteristic features of a phenomenon.